Local teen 'in shock' after earning $72K in scholarships

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Paige Froese has big plans for her future.

And now, after being chosen to receive the $60,000 Schulich Leader Scholarship and an additional $12,000 from the University of Saskatchewan, she has the financial backing to get her started.

The Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School student is gearing up for graduation at the end of this month. In the fall she will be heading to the University of Saskatchewan where she hopes to earn a bachelor of science degree and then plans to go into medicine.

“I’m thinking I might go into gynecology but I’m still not sure, I haven’t picked a major or anything yet … leaning towards something that will get me into medicine.”

Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School student Paige Froese is graduating at the end of this month and has been awarded the Schulich Leader Scholarship, worth $60,000, and has received another $12,000 from the University of Saskatchewan. The scholarships will be put toward her science studies at the University of Saskatchewan.

Paige Froese has big plans for her future.

And now, after being chosen to receive the $60,000 Schulich Leader Scholarship and an additional $12,000 from the University of Saskatchewan, she has the financial backing to get her started.

The Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School student is gearing up for graduation at the end of this month. In the fall she will be heading to the University of Saskatchewan where she hopes to earn a bachelor of science degree and then plans to go into medicine.

"I’m thinking I might go into gynecology but I’m still not sure, I haven’t picked a major or anything yet … leaning towards something that will get me into medicine."

After witnessing a few births, including one at a hospital and two home births administered by midwives, Froese said it’s an area she hopes to study further.

"I thought I was interested in being a doctor to help children and then I wanted to kind of be a part of before they’re born. I really love the pregnancy period and the growth of them in there … I’ve always grown up wanting to be a doctor or surgeon or something like that."

When asked what it was like seeing the entire birthing process up close, she said she enjoyed it.

"For me it’s just so interesting to see it because you hear how horrible it is but you get to see the miracle that happens … I liked it."

Canadian Schulich Leader Scholarships are undergraduate scholarships for students intending to focus their area of study on either science, technology, engineering or mathematics at a minimum of one of their 20 designated universities. High schools across Canada are eligible to nominate one Schulich Leader each. Nominees must possess outstanding community, business or entrepreneurial leadership qualities and show academic excellence.

The scholarship is distributed during each term of undergraduate study and will start in fall 2013.

The Schulich Leader Scholarships are part of a $100 million gift in perpetuity on behalf of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and the Seymour Schulich Foundation.

Besides being nominated, Froese also had to submit her own essay.

"We were required to write an essay about what we thought would make us a good Schulich Leader. I wrote mine on different ways I’ve been a leader in my school and in my community," she said. "I also wrote about how one of the ways I lead is in how I live my life and I try to inspire other people to do good as well."

Along with volunteering on her church committee and teaching Sunday school, she’s also volunteered her time in the F1 in Schools world championship design challenge that she attended in Abu Dhabi.

The program is funded by Grand Prix racing teams and an F1 in Schools competition was held at the University of Manitoba’s faculty of engineering in April 2010. The Golden Geckos team from Crocus Plains won the Manitoba competition and two weeks later placed first at the Canadian national competition in Toronto.

Froese said she’s looking forward to furthering her studies and was very excited to learn she had been chosen for the Schulich Leader scholarship.

"I was really excited. I had to hold my breath so I wouldn’t scream or cry," she said. "I was kind of in shock, I couldn’t believe that I’d actually been chosen."

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